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December 23, 2002
Quality control
Just stumbled across this note about the Challenger disaster and the engineer's warning about the O-rings that management decided to ignore.
It just got me thinking - is the corporate culture really enought different now to prevent something like from happening again?
Sure, companies are focusing on quality. We are doing a better job where I work than we were a year ago, which is good.
But the question still is - in a high-profile situation, who is gutsy enough to say "no launch."
And this reminded me of Richard Feynman's last book, "What do you care what people think?", and his first-hand account of the hearings on the disaster.
Feynman always is a great read.
But that section in that book stands out. It is probably one of the best accounts of how the military-industrial complex can fail, and fail horribly - especially when voices of dissent are stifled.
Posted by markj at December 23, 2002 02:04 PM
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